scintillating

in a sentence

Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities, and in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

Mamie's scintillating eyes met Wes's as she opened the door and her arms for a big hug.†  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

But one step outside the scintillating world of petroleum engineering and he had two left tongues.†  (source) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, 2003

We'd always been such scintillating conversationalists.†  (source) Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, 2007

The high colour of his cheeks pushed upwards even to his forehead, where it scattered itself in a few formless patches of pale red; and on his hairless face there scintillated restlessly the polished lenses and the bright gilt rims of the glasses which screened his delicate and restless eyes.†  (source) James Joyce, Dubliners, 1914

We're impervious, we scintillate, we are thirteen.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

This is the beginning; this is the spark which afterwards dilates to vivid flame, and like a star in heaven scintillates within me.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy - Volume 3 (Paradise), 1320

He lay perfectly still in the grass, his shirt open over his sculpted, incandescent chest, his scintillating arms bare.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

When the day grew quite strong and commonplace these dried off her; moreover, Tess then lost her strange and ethereal beauty; her teeth, lips, and eyes scintillated in the sunbeams and she was again the dazzlingly fair dairymaid only, who had to hold her own against the other women of the world.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891

From time to time, as if to remove some dust, he filliped with his nail the silk of the scarves spread out at full length, and they rustled with a little noise, making in the green twilight the gold spangles of their tissue scintillate like little stars.†  (source) Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, 1856

Emma held out a hand and flicked her wrist, but rather than producing a ball of fire her hand glowed a scintillating blue.†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

Six hours more or less on the defensive; six hours of alert immobility while the boat drove slowly or floated arrested, according to the caprice of the wind; while the sea, calmed, slept at last; while the clouds passed above his head; while the sky from an immensity lustreless and black, diminished to a sombre and lustrous vault, scintillated with a greater brilliance, faded to the east, paled at the zenith; while the dark shapes blotting the low stars astern got outlines, relief became shoulders, heads, faces, features,—confronted him with dreary stares, had dishevelled hair, torn clothes, blinked red eyelids at the white dawn.†  (source) Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim, 1900

And soon as to a stop her words had come, Not otherwise does iron scintillate When molten, than those circles scintillated.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320